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Chicago examiner monday Chicago october 23 19 11 14 pages monday the voice of the people cries out in loud tones in favor of the examiner want ad pages for the first 21 days of october the ex aminer gained 29.20 cols of want ad adver tising and the tribune lost 176.10 cols the examiner's tremendous circulation daily as well as sunday s the explanation feee it's oous Chicago and vicinity cioudy p ar d probably unsettled monday c^7 f tuesday fair and continuing cool ifssfmi r__fl moderate northwest winds becoming j\f sns variable '{( > 2rx range of temperature vol ix no 262 a m a ** * ittgutrred in hricf onf cfnt deliver by ctrrler c 8 p_t off _ r r_4<__c v_il pi 1 30 cent , p â€ž â€žâ€žâ€ž,,,; h v fun is found injured mysteriously former judge is discovered dazed on pavement in michigan avenue revenge may be cause law partner believes victim was struck by auto broken glass clew bleeding half unconscious and com pletely dazed former judge henry v freeman a member of the law firm of freeman & mason was found lying in the center of michigan avenue nea thirty-ninth street at b:40 last evening by fred c robie an automobile sales man robie was driving to his home at 6757 woodlawn avenue and saw the form of mr freeman kotj.ie stopped his machine picked up the victim and took him to the Chicago baptist hospital and it was not until his wounds had been dressed and his face washed that he was recognized an ex amination disclosed that although badly bruised about the head and shoulders the lawyer was not seriously injured and he was taken to his home 5737 washington avenue the accident is a mystery mr free man was unable to explain how he had been injured or where he had been pre vious to that time for a period he was unable to remember his name his age or where he had lived the presence of a quantity of broken glass near where he was lying suggested he was struck by a speeding auto the driver of which fled after running down his victim is prominent as lawyer how long he had lain in the center of the street before being discovered is not known that he was not run down and mure seriously injured by passing auto mobiles is considered remarkable judge freeman for forty years has been i a member of the hyde park presbyterian church is a leading member of the loyal legion and from 1893 to 1910 served on ae superior and appellate court benches he is now a candidate for re-election to i the same office he is also master in chancery for judge burke who defeated him for the office a year ago during the early part of his career on the bench mr freeman served several years as judge in the criminal court dur ing that time be sentenced many crim inals and one theory is that he might have been attacked by some one inspired by revenge geo.-ge h mason the in jured man's partner ' however holds to the theory that he was struck by au au tomobile robie told how he discovered mr free man last night i was on my way home just before da.k he said and had stopped to let s car pass at thirty-ninth street just after i crossed the tracks i noticed some one lying in the street and i stopped again to make an investigation i am acquainted with mr freeman but i did not recognize him when i picked him up t_vce black with dust his face was black with dust he was bleeding from cuts and scratches and his lothes were torn although conscious he was completely dazed and w'hen i asked wnat was the matter he did not know " where am i he asked where nave i been how did i get here another machine then drove up and stopped and the driver helped me get the then unidentified man in my automo bile and i took him to the Chicago bap tist hospital there after bis wounds were dressed i recognized him i asked him his name his age and several other questions but he seemed unable to re member his memory had completely lapsed the doctors told me he could uy be taken home and the drive through the air seemed to revive him al though he still could not remember where iic tad been or what had happened from bis position in the street and the fact i that a quantity of broken glass was near \ him i believe he was struck by an auto 1 mobile after being administered to at the hos 1t:il mr freeman told bottle and attend ants that he lived n't t760 woodlawn venue whereas for the last year he has lived at 5737 washington avenue after moving he rented his woodlawn avenue residence to warren gorrel it was evi dent the victim's mind had temporarily become a blank concerning recent events ruble did not know where mr freeman lived nnd be took him to the gorrel homo where the former judge seemed much sur prised to find the nouse occupied by ap parent strangers members of the freeman family are as deeply in the dark concerting the affair as are the attorney's friends there is no intimation that attorney freeman was other than the victim of an attack or nu autoaiooile accident 6 hurt in trolley crash hartford conn oct 22.-si x per sons were injured in a ear end collision between intcrurban trolley cars near crom well twelve miles south of hartford to day wet letn-es on the rails rendered the brake useless henry v preehan pastor makes few auto patrol arrests gary backsliders are loth to ride to church under police escort the central christian bible class is tremendously in earnest if vou are climb in it's time to be moving i the above sign blazed across the sides j of gary's automobile police patrol yester day as the rev nelson d trimble pastor of the central christian church made his actual patrol of his parish in the effort to bring backsliders to church the method was wholly spectacular in addition to the placards which adorned the patrol there were two burly police men aboard and one of them carried a i bass drum right up to the houses of the lax church goers went the patrol out would climb the rev mr trimble and as he walked to the door of the house one of the po licemen would beat the drum whoever opened the doo r would be greeted with the salutation i arrest you in the name of the lord backing him up were four of the dea cons of the church who added words of encouragement to those spoken by the pastor a dry ride a snappy interesting sermon good music etc were all urged nevertheless nearly all of those ap proached elected to remain at home per haps tbey did not care to enter the lime light but whatever the reason they re mained at home 5 hurt 1 fatally in auto machine crashes into car pas sengers bruised - five men were seriously injured one fatally when an automobile collided with a northbound through route street car at midnight at the corner of west four teenth and halsted streets the injured are samuel cohen address not learned fractured skull will die robert green 1401 west fourteenth street fractured ribs bernard garvey 1622 south forty first avenue fractured ribs harry garvey brother same address fractured ribs and cut head harry ward 1339 west fourteenth place two other men in the automobile were thrown out and badly bruised but were not taken to the hospital the others were rushed to the county hospital where cohen's case was pronounced virtually hopeless according to the police of the maxwell street station the occupants of the auto mobile were at fiyilt it is declared that the street car was proceeding north and was just crossing the street when the au i tomobile running very fast struck it squarely in the side 2 dead in race riot blacks storm town troops called out in oklahoma after negro is lynched by mob city attorney is killed feared coweta will be at tacked and burned ere the soldiers arrive coweta okla oct 22 city attorney j d beavers was killed two other white men were mcrtally injured two uegrots were shot this afternoon and another lynched to-night in a bailie in coweta be tween negroes and whites ed suddeth was the negro lynched he was riddled with bullets by a mob which intercepted officers who were starting with him to the wagoner okla jail in an automobile armed negroes from red bird an ex clusive negro town are now on their way to coweta and it is feared the town will be attacked and burned late to-night a company of oklahoma national guard was ordered here a posse of white citizens all heavily armed is on its way from muskogee to coweta o special train coweta has asked for help from all surroondlng towns the sheriff of wagoner county has ad mitted his inability to cope with the sit uation hanged to water tank earlier in the day after suddeth who shot beavers had been captured he was hanged to a railroad water tank but was cut down before he was strangled and taken to jail the white men shot are carman oliver and stephen thompson trouble started yesterday when a negro named ruse jostled against a white man and a girl pushing the girl off the sidewalk and into the mud edward swazer struck ruse another white mau seized ruse and held him while swazer gave him a thrashing ruse to-day walked the streets with a knife looking for the man who held him when he was ordered by city marshal hurl to give up the knife he attacked the officer who opened fire upon him then the negro suddeth jumped into the melee firing from across the street his shots killed city attorney beavers and wounded two other whites shooting at once became general sud deth barricaded himself in a vacant build ing a posse was organized and surrounded the place and soon suddeth was wound ed and captured every white man here is armed and pre pared to withstand the attack homes are barricaded men and women are barricading their homes against the threatened attack and should the negroes reach here before the troops it is feared a slaughter will take place coweta is terror stricken to-night un der the fear of a greater outbreak before daylight one-third of the population of 1,200 are negroes the country is popu lated largely by negroes and it is known that they could send a body of 2,000 into town in a short time negroes have been sent to all the sur rounding to'wns to stir up feeling and urge others to come to coweta to even up the score some of the negroes here have been heard to make the threat that they will fire every house in coweta the town is without fire protection the citizens are poorly armed the governor has been asked to come to coweta in per son and he is expected in the morning nearly every able-bodied man in the place and on nearby ranches has been sworn in as a deputy sheriff and will serve under the sheriff homes were turned topsy-turvy in an effort to blockade doors and windows and the women and children have been taken to the upper floors where they are staying behind walls of mattresses and bedding tribute to myrtle reed bishop fallows eulogizes writer at special service more than 500 of the personal friends of mrs mrytle reed mccullpugh the chi cago authoress who wrote under the name of myrtle reed and whose death recently occurred paid tribute to her memory yesterday in the reformed epis copal church adams street and wlnches i ter avenue bishop samuel fallows her i pastor and g h putnam of new york i her publisher both eulogized the memory jof the woman whose works are fondly i known all over the world ships lost in british gale english channel is stormswept for 24 hours man swept overboard special clbll to the extmln.r london oct 22 several vessels are i missing as a result of a terrific gale that ! has been sweeping the english channel for ' \ the last twenty-four hours one boat has i been blown ashore near deal one man j | was swept overbonrd from the mail steam ' ship riviera as she was trying to make ! dover this morning mail and passenger boats for calais were uuable to leave dover during the day i woman slai n body near car tracks handsome well-dressed vic tim of supposed robbers is unidentified blow fractures skull tragedy on south halsted is new death mystery for police a new death mystery with murder and robbery as a possible solution confronted the police with the finding early this morn ing of a well-dressed handsome woman lying unconscious near the curbing on south halsted street between seventy fifth and seventy-sixth streets the base of the woman's skoll had been fractured by a heavy blow she was taker to st bernard's hospital where she dlvi witbln an hour believed highwaymen's victim although the woman was of a reflneo and prosperous appearance she had no purse or other valuables she was about twenty feet from the halsted street car tracks and it is not believed likely that she could have been thrown this far had she been hit by a street car the police of the north englewood sta tion are working on a theory that she was murdered by highwaymen the woman was described as having dark hair and weighing 150 pounds she was about thirty-eight years old she wore a white shirt waist a gray skirt a long tan coat and an expensive beaver hat and new tan shoes no marks of identification were found on her cloth ing motorman sees body motorman l b ewing noticed the wom an as he went past on a halsted street car he stopped his car and passengers carried her to the platform i tried to talk to her said ewing but she was unconscious she was ly ifjg with her head propped up against the curbing and the lower part of her body in the street i saw no blood stains out by the tracks but by the curbing the pavement was discolored if she haa been knocked that far by a street car the motorman would have known it when hejstruc her and stopped shoot man rob woman highwaymen wound aged victim get 68 in stocking herman richer seventy-two years old was shot and seriously wounded this morn ing by masked highwaymen whom he re sisted when they held him up in the sa loon of albert wegmann 8559 south mor gan street rlchart and wegmann were alone in the saloon the bandits fled after robbing the cash register of 30 richart lives at 2628 wallace street mrs clyde harrison 455 east thirty fifth street reported to the brighton park police station at 1 o'clock this morning that she had been held up by two young men at west thirty-ninth street and ar tesian avenue and robbed of a handbag containing a bank book and a small amount of money she said that the rob bers also took 68 which she had con cealed in her stocking accuses holy ghost head sandford dined while followers starved declares sailing master brunswick me oct 22 an amaz ing story of how the members of the holy ghost and cs society who put to sea on the yacht coronet and the barken tine kingdom were forced to subsist on three swallows of water and a little food each day while their leader the rev frank w sandford enjoyed gcod meals cooked from the choicest of foods left by passing ships was told to-night by roland whltton formerly sailing master of the coronet he says the supplies left by passing ships sandford would parcel ont in small quantities to the fifty-four per sons on board bnt would always have hearty meals for himself prepared by his private cook whitton attributes the seven deatbs on board largely to these conditions sandford has been released on 10,000 ball pastor is a hypnotist exerted spell over women his nemesis charges sterling 111 oct 22 following up her charges against the rev charles ed ward raymond whom she accuses of un becoming condnct with women members of the first english lutheran evangelical church of peoria mrs katherine how land to-day de lared that raymond had j hypnotized his victims on the strength of her accusations the lutheran synod has accepted the charges and will place the rev mr raymond on trial within a few i days possibly this week a total of forty charges have been filed against the clergy man flames sweep stamboul special cable te the examiner constantinople oct 22 stambonl is threatened with complete destruction by ' lire flames have been raging all day and ot 5 o'clock this evening more than 1,00(1 i buildings bad been destroyed at that ' time the inadequate and antiquated ap ' paratus for righting fire bad made no im pression and the flames are now sweeping through the sultan bayezid quarter many i lives are reported to have been lost ducheess de chaulnes former miss shonts to wed prince murat friends declare the young american widow of due de chaulnes has admitted engagement â€¢ new york oct 22 close friends of the duchess de chaulnes who was miss theodora shonts declare to-day that the story that she is to wed prince joachim murat is true and that the young duchess has admitted the engagement to a few intimate friends the story has been denied denials have been half withdrawn and acquaintances of the american noblewoman have been wholly at sea prince murat is the fifth son of the fifth prince murat he does not deny the story that they will wed soon mrs theodore p shonts mother of the pretty american girl who now holds a distinguished position in exclusive french society has stated that there is no pros pect of an immediate marriage later after a conference with her daughter she said the story was groundless friends say o but " - concerning this denial friends of the duchess smile and say o but " the prince was a close friend of the late due de chaulnes and it is said that the due himself introduced his wife to the friend who may soon claim her as his bride the three were often together in the six weeks following the marriage ending in the due's death the young duke named emanuel theo dore bernart marie and whose titles are comte de luynes d'allly and due de chaulnes et de picquiny who was born in the november following his father's death is the pride and hope of his american grandfather sister-in-law aids match it is said that the duchess d'tjzes who did much to bring about the marriage be tween her brother and miss shonts is anx ious to bring abont the new match she has been heard frequently to tell youug murat that it was time he married and many of her friends have been intimating or some time that she had it in her mind to arrange a marriage between the bona partist prince and her widowed sister-in law prince mnrat is a descendant of napol eon's field marshal of that name whom he made king of naples madero will visit Taft president-elect of mexico plans trip to the united states el paso tex oct 22 francisco i madero president elect of mexico is planning a visit to the cnited states to discuss mexican affairs with president Taft provided the meeting can be ar ranged at a time preceding his inaugura tion this information was received here in a telegram from monterey madero is new in the vicinity of monterey cruiser on rock is wreck special cable to the examiner lisbon oct 22.-the portuguese cruiser san rafael which went on the rocks near villa da conde several days ago is a complete wreck all of her crew were saved fifty of the men swimming ashore but everything on the boat was lo t 8 little girls ist repeat horror tales to-day witter . refuses to spare them ordeal women stored by previous recitals wiu throng to juvenile hearing examiner is praised for baring the maywood home abuses aid is promised investigators personal service system which is impossible in the larg:r institutions is urged as b st way to end existing evils support prom sed in present in vestigation by well = known civic workers yv ight little girls must undergo the ordeal of repeating the most j disgraceful story of shame and degradation that has ever gone on i(j the record of any tribunal in Illinois because john witter will no v permit their evidence to be introduced in affidavit form and relieve the children of reciting their experiences at mrs brunst's home in may wood while they were wards of the juvenile court and while mr wit ter was the chief probation officer of that court i think that if the testimony of the girls is to be used in my trial before the civil service commission it should be direct evidence said mr witter last night ' if the prosecution does not aii to pat the children on the witness stand they can leave their testimony out of the case altogether iam on trial for inefficiency and i cannot see why they think it necessary to introduce the evidence of these girls because it has no bearing on my case so far as i can see mr witter was apparently sincere in his belief that the corruption ot the minds of children who have been taken from their parents by the juve nile court was no reflection on his efficiency as chief probation officer witter's action surprise to dunn ballard dunn president of the civil service commission seemed greatly surprised when he learned that mr witter would not spare the children the strain of repeating a story that has already been told in all its distressing details by one thirteen-year-old girl and which is substan tiated by affidavits from the other girls because mr witter is on trial before the commission mr dunn declared that it would be improper for him to criticise his action mr witter is on trial and if he considers it necessary to have direct evidence from the children instead of taking their depositions pri vately he is within his legal rights in refusing to permit the latter cours to be taken said mr dunn yesterday the children will probably be called upon to repeat their testimony before the grand jury and possibly again in the criminal court as t shall send a copy of the record to state's attorney wayman in order that he may take such action as the facts in the case warrant respond to examiner appeal in response to the appeal of ballard dunn in sunday morning's examiner dozens of well-known Chicago women and ministers have vol unteered to be present this morning when children of the maywood in stitution offer testimony of the revolting conditions under which they have been compelled to live many persons connected with charitable and religious organizations commended the attempt that is being made to fill the room with thoughtful sympathetic people who by their pres ence will render the ordeal less terrifying for the little girl witnesses ( it would be pitiful if these children were permitted to tell their un happy stories before a crowd of morbidly curious idlers said mrs el mer allen superintendent of the children's department of the midnight mission mothers of Chicago should give a few minutes of their time to-day to helping by their mere presence at the hearing of these mother less girls who are confronted by such a terrible task i shall try to have as many of my friends as i can reach at the county building the rev john b shaw chairman of the vice committee of the Chicago presbytery v said : i shall be glad to be there the stories i understand these girls have to tell are almost unbelievable i feel it my duty to be one of the persons present when the attempt to establish the truth of these revelations is made arthur burrage farwell said i must leave Chicago to-day but i shall see that some representative of our office is at the hearing it is the duty of good people of Chicago to take an active interest in the unfortunate case of these children to face the circumstances frankly and to do what must be done to bring about instant reform will change programme to attend dr melville p boynton of the lexington avenue baptist church said monday is to be a busy day for me but i think i can change my programme for the sake of the children i recognize the need of having ministers at the hearing mrs elizabeth stewart an officer of the deaconess training school said i will give up my engagements for this morning to be at the heav ing i wish i could do more for the g iris mrs mary jewell president of the forward league said it will be only justice to these children to have them recite the story of their wrongs before men and women who know and love children i shall make it a point to be at the hearing mrs james britton and mrs james bowen respectively superintendent and president of the juvenile protect ve league sent word from hull house that they would attend the hearing mother f xavier superior of st joseph's provident orphan asylum women bidden to hearing to-day by ballard dunn chairman Chicago civil service commission | earnestly urge every woman of mature years that can pot * sibly come to the civil service room on monday to be present there and support by her presence the poor little girls who may be compelled to testify to the horrible practices that they were taught at mrs brunst's children's home in maywood these little girls need the support of good women in this the greatest crisis of their young lives i warn the women that the testi mony they will hear will be a great shock to them and if they are not prepared to listen to the most unbelievable stories of moral de pravity they should remain away only mature women â€” members of women's clubs and mothers of families â€” should come and i earn estly urge such women to be present women will be given preference over men so far as the ca pacity of the room permits let the women come and crowd out the men the presence of mature members of their own sex will put courage in the hearts of these unfortunate little girls | 50 reward for information which will enable us to arrest frank grosch i 24 years old tall slender build dark eomplexion for , merly resided in vicinity of sheffield avenue and diver sey boulevard this man is obtaining money from examiner sub scribers by falsely represent ing himself as employed by the examiner